Mount Zion (Hebrew: הַר צִיּוֹן, Har Tsiyyon; Arabic: جبل صهيون, Jabal Sahyoun) is ahill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City. What is the meaning of Zion?
The definition offered more clues to the right root in question. A psammophile is an organism that lives in sandy soils. Remembering the language of origin, I thought of Greek roots that mean sand. This type of linguistic deduction takes practice, and the best spellers can perform it instan...
It was in 1955 when Whatmough was at Berkeley under the Sather Fellowship, that I came over from my office at Stanford to see him and hear his Sather Lecture on Latin Poetry. After the lecture we walked around a bit, until he inquired where the Mens Ro[o]m was, adding as he read ...
Try this one on the pronunciation of “schism” or this one on insipid (apparently now sometimes used to mean simply ‘bad’), cut a check, and the past participle of chide (briefly discussed here in 2011). Two items, each a tad flimsy to stand on its own: Spanish estar de Rodrí...
As an ideal political state, peace is prioritised, but this does not mean that there is no room for war. Dictating circumstances, Islamic teachings present defined rules of engagement in a restricted sense as a second or last resort. Islamic sacred texts and their practical application (sīrah ...